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Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL ECONOMY WASHINGTON -- Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy committee are pushing for new stimulus measures, increasing the odds of further action by the central bank [...]

Byline: JEREMY TOROBIN INTEREST RATES OTTAWA -- Just weeks ago, all the talk was about when Mark Carney would next raise interest rates. Now there's early talk of the opposite [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL U.S. ECONOMY LINDAU, GERMANY -- With U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke set to deliver his annual address at the Kansas City Fed's economics symposium on [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA MONETARY POLICY WASHINGTON -- Walking an increasingly fine line between too much easy money and sustaining a fragile recovery, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has opted to [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON MARKET LAB dparkinson@globeandmail.com So, where can gold go from here? It's a question on the minds of many market watchers this week, as gold bumped up against [...]

Byline: NEIL REYNOLDS U.S. ECONOMY OTTAWA -- reynolds.globe@gmail.com Judging by stock markets alone, happy days are here again. Judging by the number of people without work, happy days are on [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN ECONOMY The U.S. Federal Reserve Board left its key interest rate at essentially zero per cent, to no one's surprise, but its accompanying statement gave some signals [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON AT THE BELL Bond yields continue decline The close to rock-bottom yields on two-year U.S. Treasuries looks like they will be with us for a while yet, [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON Investors in U.S. bonds are betting inflation will be dormant for the foreseeable future and today's release of the producer price data and tomorrow's consumer price index [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON The U.S. inflation figures today are expected to set a modern day record with the first year-over-year negative rate in the consumer price index since 1955. 'Indeed, [...]

Byline: BOYD ERMAN; berman@globandmail.com Barack Obama brings many hopes with him to the White House - hopes for a gentler, more inclusive, more equitable America. Will he bring a more [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN; dberman@globeandmail.com Waiting for an ideal time to snap up commodity stocks now that they've fallen out of favour? It might pay to look at the trading behaviour [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL; With files from Bloomberg News OTTAWA -- Inflation in the world's richest countries appears to be peaking, allowing central banks to focus squarely on their sputtering economies. [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA; bmckenna@globeandmail.com WASHINGTON -- Don't expect Ben Bernanke to come right out and say it. But the U.S. Federal Reserve Board chief just may be secretly wishing for [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA WASHINGTON -- Inflation has become the pesky problem that just won't go away, even as the U.S. economy falters. The U.S. Federal Reserve Board tacitly acknowledged the [...]

Byline: GREG IP Slowing factory activity, weakening job growth and a credit crunch in the U.S. have investors expecting aggressive interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. But this week's surge [...]

'For most of the postwar period, economic expansions did not die of old age. They were murdered by the Federal Reserve in the name of fighting inflation. ' Former U.S. [...]

Byline: MARTIN CRUTSINGER; Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A record jump in gasoline prices pushed U.S. wholesale inflation up by the largest amount in 34 years. Still, shoppers stormed the malls [...]